Joe and Anne Scheidler founded the Chicago anti-abortion organization- Pro-Life Action League. they have been involved in pro-life work for many years, and have recently been staging pickets in front of one of Planned Parenthood’s mega centers in Aurora . Ill. Joe Scheidler was called the Green Beret of the pro-life movement by syndicated columnist Patrick Buchanan. His book on his methods of fighting abortion, CLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, was updated in 1993, and he has produced the videos Meet the Abortion Providers and Abortion: The Inside Story, featuring former abortionists who are now telling the truth about what goes on in the abortion clinics.

According Eric Scheidler, Joe’s son, “Bricks were thrown through the front windows of my parents’ house in Chicago last night at 2 a.m., with a pro-abort note attached to one.
Is pro-choice violence on the rise?”just coincidence?” He went on to state, “Last night the Illinois Choice Action Team (state NARAL chapter) held a “clinic escort” training on Chicago’s north side. A few hours late, bricks are thrown through my parents’ windows a few miles away….Let me clarify that I’m not accusing the Illinois Choice Action Team of anything. I can’t imagine their leader, Benita, of doing anything like this or being anything but horrified by it. But I wouldn’t be surprised if someone who attended the meeting got all fired up and decided to raise some hell.”

Here’s the note that came through the window with a chunk of asphalt. It reads (unedited):

We are crazy feminist bitches
who will destroy your sexist
…ideas

[modified anarchy symbol]

P.S. I’ve had an
Abortion and no
laws would ever stop
me You can’t make
Queen Anne’s lace illegal
Asshole

According to Eric, “The “no laws could ever stop me” seems redundant, what with the anti-vandalism laws having been ignored. BTW, seeds from Queen Anne’s lace are supposed to be contraceptive (possibly even abortifacient).”

Joe is unavailable as he said he is dealing with police and reporting the incident !

Operation Rescue was outraged to learn this morning that the home of long-time pro-life leader Joseph Scheidler was attacked in the middle of the night with bricks of asphalt being thrown through two front windows. One of the bricks contained a threatening note from an obvious abortion supporter bearing a message of hate. The attack occurred around 2:00 A.M.

“We denounce in the strongest terms the cowardly violence that shattered the peace of the Scheidler home last night,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “We demand that that Attorney General Eric Holder order the Justice Department to launch an immediate investigation into this violent hate crime and to provide the same protections to Joseph and Ann Scheidler as they have in the past for unthreatened abortionists.”

There has been a recent increase in violence against peaceful pro-lifers. In September, 2009, activist Jim Pouillon was brutally murdered as he stood with a pro-life sign in front of a high school in Owosso, Michigan. Operation Rescue’s headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, has been repeatedly vandalized, and staff threatened in recent months. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, sidewalk counselors were threatened by a man at gunpoint and police later discovered a cache of weapons in the man’s vehicle.

“Joe and Ann Scheidler are pioneers in the pro-life movement whose knowledge and experience has benefitted everyone who has ever taken a stand for the lives of the pre-born,” said Newman. “Please join Operation Rescue in sending a special Christmas gift to the Scheidler’s today as a show of support and to help defray the cost of repairing the damage to their home.”

Eric Scheidler has also requested prayer for this person, stating,”pray for the angry woman who smashed out my parents’ windows in the middle of the night in an act of pro-choice violence. Please pray that she will somehow find healing and hope. And please pray that every pro-lifer she meets will treat her with the kind of respect and attentive compassion that she deserves, so she will know that she is loved.”